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 PUBLIC LAW 95-166—NOV. 10, 1977
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"NUTRITION

91 STAT. 1341

INFORMATION AND TRAINING

"(d)(1) The Secretary is authorized to formulate and carry out ia nutrition information and education program, through a system of grants to State educational agencies, to provide for (A) the nutritional training of educational and food service personnel, (B) the food service management training of school food service personnel, and (C) the conduct of nutrition education activities in scnools and child care institutions. "(2) The program is to be coordinated at the State level with other nutrition activities conducted by education, health, and State Cooperative Extension Service agencies. In formulating the program, the Secretary and the State may solicit the advice and recommendations of the National Advisory Council on Child Nutrition; State educational agencies; the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; and other interested groups and individuals concerned with improvement of child nutrition. "(3) If a State educational agency is conducting or applying to conduct a health education program which includes a school-related nutrition education component as defined by the Secretary, and that health education program is eligible for funds under programs administered by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Secretary may make funds authorized in this section available to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to fund the nutrition education component of the State program without requiring an additional grant application. " (4) The Secretary, in carrying out the provisions of this subsection, shall make grants to State educational agencies who, in turn, may contract with land-grant colleges eligible to receive funds under the Act of July 2, 1862 (12 Stat. 503, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 301-305, 307, and 308), or the Act of August 30, 1890 (26 Stat. 417, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 321-326 and 328), including the Tuskegee Institute, other institutions of higher education, and nonprofit organizations and agencies, for the training of educational and school food service personnel with respect to providing nutrition education programs in schools and the training of school food service personnel in school food service management. Such grants may be used to develop and conduct training programs for early childhood, elementary, and secondary educational ersonnel and food service personnel with respect to the relationship etween food, nutrition, and health; educational methods and techniques, and issues relating to nutrition education; and principles and skills of food service management for cafeteria personnel. "(5) The State, in carrying out the provisions of this subsection, may contract with State and local educational agencies, land-grant colleges eligible to receive funds under the Act of July 2, 1862 (12 Stat. 503, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 301-305, 307, and 308), or the act of August 30, 1890 (26 Stat. 417, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 321-326 and 328) j including the Tuskegee Institute, other institutions of higher education, and other public or private nonprofit educational or research agencies, institutions, or organizations to pay the cost of pilot demonstration projects in elementary and secondary schools with respect to nutrition education. Such projects may include, but are not limited to, projects for the development, demonstration, testing, and evaluation of curricula for use in early childhood, elementary, and secondary education programs. "(6) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, if, in any State, the State educational agency is prohibited by law from administering the program authorized by this section iii nonprofit private

Grants.

Coordination with other nutrition activities.

Coordination with HEW. Transfer of funds.

Nutrition training. Grants. State contractci.

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Pilot projects. State contractsi.

Private schools, program administration.

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